First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming pk3 at 2R I have md tags as does grandma ... report me and you will be wasting time as other parent lives and owns property in dc ...grandma also owns property in dc and md and a business in dc... so many variables here and the school has all residency documentation they need. Don't take or personal just because our norm differs from yours. BTW as a single mom I'm looking for a place near 2R to rent and we'll let's just say I'm saving fir the 2500 plus a month rent and deposit with no go assistance.

Does the child live with grandma or the other parent? If the other parent owns property in DC, I hope he owes you enough child support to live near him and near the school.

Seriously.. where does the kid live? With you/Grandma in Maryland? or with dad in DC? Sounds like you have sole custody and using your ex-husband's (baby daddy's?) address. It doesn't seem right.

PP.is.residency.cheating.

Yup.

so many variables here and the school has all residency documentation they need.

Whatever the school has is a lie, and doesn't adequately represent that the child doesn't actually sleep in DC at night.
This is amazing. "My kid got a spot in that charter school that your child is 400th on the waitlist for, even though they don't live in DC. My ex owns property in DC; grandma owns a business in DC but lives in MD, so do I because I cannot afford to live in DC. Don't waste your time reporting me."

OMG. Could this be an any bigger F* U* to the rest of us struggling to figure out whether to pack up and leave the city because our kids didn't get in anywhere? This woman has a serious set of balls, and DCPS should grab her by those balls ASAP.

A little dramatic. Nowhere else has Pk3 and pk4 so you'd be moving for nothing. IB guaranteed at K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I'd really like to think it was one of the legitimate reasons stated in prior posts, but it sure didn't seem like it. It seemed like people that live in Maryland dropping their kids off on the way to work.

Not a rental car, not a foster parent, not grandma, not military -- kids calling parents "mom" and very much looking like they'd just been on a 40 minute car ride.

It seemed very casual. That was the most jarring part.

So perhaps the parents are divorced and were at Mom's for the weekend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming pk3 at 2R I have md tags as does grandma ... report me and you will be wasting time as other parent lives and owns property in dc ...grandma also owns property in dc and md and a business in dc... so many variables here and the school has all residency documentation they need. Don't take or personal just because our norm differs from yours. BTW as a single mom I'm looking for a place near 2R to rent and we'll let's just say I'm saving fir the 2500 plus a month rent and deposit with no go assistance.

Does the child live with grandma or the other parent? If the other parent owns property in DC, I hope he owes you enough child support to live near him and near the school.

Seriously.. where does the kid live? With you/Grandma in Maryland? or with dad in DC? Sounds like you have sole custody and using your ex-husband's (baby daddy's?) address. It doesn't seem right.

How many people get sole custody when both parents are active in the child's life. I'm assuming that poster is using the father's address since he lives in the city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an incoming pk3 at 2R I have md tags as does grandma ... report me and you will be wasting time as other parent lives and owns property in dc ...grandma also owns property in dc and md and a business in dc... so many variables here and the school has all residency documentation they need. Don't take or personal just because our norm differs from yours. BTW as a single mom I'm looking for a place near 2R to rent and we'll let's just say I'm saving fir the 2500 plus a month rent and deposit with no go assistance.

Does the child live with grandma or the other parent? If the other parent owns property in DC, I hope he owes you enough child support to live near him and near the school.

Seriously.. where does the kid live? With you/Grandma in Maryland? or with dad in DC? Sounds like you have sole custody and using your ex-husband's (baby daddy's?) address. It doesn't seem right.

PP.is.residency.cheating.

Yup.

so many variables here and the school has all residency documentation they need.

Whatever the school has is a lie, and doesn't adequately represent that the child doesn't actually sleep in DC at night.
This is amazing. "My kid got a spot in that charter school that your child is 400th on the waitlist for, even though they don't live in DC. My ex owns property in DC; grandma owns a business in DC but lives in MD, so do I because I cannot afford to live in DC. Don't waste your time reporting me."

OMG. Could this be an any bigger F* U* to the rest of us struggling to figure out whether to pack up and leave the city because our kids didn't get in anywhere? This woman has a serious set of balls, and DCPS should grab her by those balls ASAP.

You are assuming the post is real. That post has troll written all over it. And it is working.

It's not a troll. It's pretty likely that this post was written by the same person who wrote this one, last week on the real estate board: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/492465.page#7418119

She seems pretty unsophisticated, and i'm guessing she really doesn't see anything unlegit about her residency situation - even though it is a galling residency cheat and not, as PP likes to suggest, "just because our norm differs from yours". I wish someone at Two Rivers could put two and two together and get her booted.

[Anonymous]

op - here no I did not post to the real estate thread... court appointed joint custody and recently divorced if you must know all the details. sleeps in both homes equally, hmm i should reach out to that other poster sounds like we have much in common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They may have moved recently and not gotten new tags yet. They might have hired a nanny from MD. Maybe Grandma lives in MD and is helping out.

Excuses, always excuses. It's likely they are fraudsters from PG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I'd really like to think it was one of the legitimate reasons stated in prior posts, but it sure didn't seem like it. It seemed like people that live in Maryland dropping their kids off on the way to work.

Not a rental car, not a foster parent, not grandma, not military -- kids calling parents "mom" and very much looking like they'd just been on a 40 minute car ride.

It seemed very casual. That was the most jarring part.

Parent probably going to work at a DC government office. DC bureaucrats who live in MD are some of the most blatant residency cheaters. Even police officers have been fingered for fraud.

[Anonymous]

I suppose you could strike up a conversation with the parent and ask where they live, that seems like a normal question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, with all the things to worry about in the world that ARE my business, my philosophy has become that if I'm not getting paid to worry about it, or it has nothing to do with me (and believe it or not, this really doesn't) then I cannot and will not find the energy to worry about it.

Charter schools have someone who's job it is to worry about residency cheats. Let them worry about it; it's why they get paid the big bucks.

You're a mom with a family. I'd think you have more important things to worry about.

Residency fraud hurts all of us. It's a theft of services from the DC taxpayers. It steals resources that could be more effectively allocated in DCPS. And worst of all, it often steals a place from a deserving DC student who lost out on getting into a better public school as a result of the cheating. It may seem like a cliche, but of you see something, say something.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, our family will have the same babysitter as last year, but last year she drove our car to school & this year she will bring my son in her car, which is registered in MD. I'm really hoping to avoid any drama from well meaning schoolmates who are concerned about our residency (which continues to be in DC)...

[Anonymous]

Didn't read all the responses but it's entirely possible the parent is driving a company vehicle. Our kids attend school in MCPS but are frequently dropped off in a car with DC tags because it is a company vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op - here no I did not post to the real estate thread... court appointed joint custody and recently divorced if you must know all the details. sleeps in both homes equally, hmm i should reach out to that other poster sounds like we have much in common.

Bs. People don't call themselves a single parent when they are sharing custody of a child or children. Usually it means that the other person is out of the picture completely or was never in the picture.

Either way- hope you get caught. And soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't read all the responses but it's entirely possible the parent is driving a company vehicle. Our kids attend school in MCPS but are frequently dropped off in a car with DC tags because it is a company vehicle.

Doubt that too. Any car without DC tags will rack up a million ROSA violations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which schools started today?

http://www.dcpcsb.org/blog/back-school-dates-welcome-back

So it was at an Apple Tree Early Learning Center then. Is there a waitlist for any of those schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which schools started today?

http://www.dcpcsb.org/blog/back-school-dates-welcome-back

So it was at an Apple Tree Early Learning Center then. Is there a waitlist for any of those schools?

It shouldn't matter if there is a waitlist. Cheaters are not paying tuition for AT.